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Bard

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium

rolled on an attack roll or ability check before using Cutting Words, or should they always guess? If used on a damage roll, does Cutting Words apply to any kind of damage roll including an auto-hit

spell like magic missile? You can wait to use Cutting Words after the roll, but you must commit to doing so before you know for sure whether the total of the roll or check is a success or a failure

Breaking Objects

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

effective against an object. For example, Bludgeoning damage works well for smashing things but not for cutting. Paper or cloth objects might have Vulnerability to Fire damage. Damage Threshold. Big objects

, such as castle walls, often have extra resilience represented by a damage threshold. See also “Damage Threshold.” No Ability Scores. An object lacks ability scores unless a rule assigns scores to the object. Without ability scores, an object can’t make ability checks, and it fails all saving throws.

Breaking Objects

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

effective against an object. For example, Bludgeoning damage works well for smashing things but not for cutting. Paper or cloth objects might have Vulnerability to Fire damage. Damage Threshold. Big objects

, such as castle walls, often have extra resilience represented by a damage threshold. See also “Damage Threshold.” No Ability Scores. An object lacks ability scores unless a rule assigns scores to the object. Without ability scores, an object can’t make ability checks, and it fails all saving throws.

Nobles of Borca

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Nobles of Borca From their decadent manors and lofty business offices, twelve prominent noble families rule over Borcan politics, industry, art, entertainment, religion, and every other aspect of

and their ashes scattered in the wastelands. Ritter. The shear-wielding Ritters define the cutting edge of fashion. Their coveted designs change seasonally, and any who create reproductions meet

Initiative Variants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Initiative Variants This section offers different ways to handle initiative. Initiative Score With this optional rule, creature don’t roll initiative at the start of combat. Instead, each creature

has an initiative score, which is a passive Dexterity check: 10 + Dexterity modifier. By cutting down on die rolls, math done on the fly, and the process of asking for and recording totals, you can

Life in Shankhabhumi

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

favor clothing composed of lengths of cotton or silk cloth called bastras, which are wrapped around the body in various styles. These include the loose, voluminous drapes of a sedentary noble, the

swamps. Citizens who were away from home were left stranded. Those survivors and their descendants assimilated into the other cities, bringing Manivarsha’s traditions of gem-cutting and jewel-setting

Sedgemoor Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

for Witherbloom students and faculty doing research in Sedgemoor. Moss and fungi harvesting kits can be found here. Each kit weighs 1 pound, consists of various cutting and collecting tools, and

threat of corruption. Murgaxor’s Journal. If you’re running all four adventures in this book as a campaign, a character spots a small, oilskin-wrapped journal sitting atop a small stump. Water damage

Converted Windmill: Winter

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

block dominates the room, and shelves of cut meat wrapped in bloody parchment line the walls. The floor is streaked with blood and covered with bits of gore. Thrakkus padlocks the door at night

the winter and smells of meat and blood. Six half-frozen humanoid carcasses are stacked under a 10-foot-square canvas tarpaulin near the western wall. Thrakkus hasn’t gotten around to cutting them up

Hideout Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

organized. A shelf holds a row of pots and pans. On one side of the fireplace, a cutting board and knife rest on a counter. Clean plates and utensils sit on a matching counter on the other side. The

. The trunks are lined with lead to ensure that the locate object spell cannot be used to find their contents: Trunk 1 contains Nidalia’s desiccated heart, wrapped in a black silk cloth and resting atop

Merchant Princes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

Merchant Princes Seven merchant princes rule Port Nyanzaru, each one with an equal vote in matters of state. All are Chultan. Their single qualification is that they’re the seven richest people in

. Most of her body is hidden under billowy robes and tightly wrapped black bandages. Jessamine trades in plants, herbs, poison, and sanctioned assassination. Murder is illegal in Port Nyanzaru, as it is

Mummy Lord

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

ancient empires. The regalia of their terrible rule still adorns their linen-wrapped bodies, their moldering robes stitched with evil symbols and bronze armor etched with devices of dynasties that fell a

Gods of the Orcs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

predicts that the war will end with Luthic the only deity standing, as the cave mother ascends to rule her warrior children. Gruumsh, “He Who Watches” Gruumsh, the undisputed ruler of the orc

Mighty. In the myths, it is said that Bahgtru was out hunting when he was surprised by the mightiest of the behirs, one with hundreds of legs. In a flash, Bahgtru was wrapped in the creature’s coils

Haskasori Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

memorial to Haskasori’s final ruler, Yaarnak. The ruler’s body isn’t interred here, though; his corpse rests in a separate tomb (area H13). The statue depicts Yaarnak’s bizarre emblem of rule: a

brass chains wrapped around Yaarnak’s body are worth 800 GP total. Any character who sifts through the broken jars and succeeds on a DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check discovers an amulet of Yaarnak (see

Tour of the Planes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

districts of the plane represent different aspects of law: precisely maintained fields, legalistic tribunals, and hordes of modrons compiling archives of every rule or regulation ever created. Some

fiendish satraps rule city-islands of obsidian that drift atop seas of magma, their minions producing metalcraft of surpassing beauty and quality. Fernia Manifest Zone Features d4 Feature 1 Spells

Outer City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

street 5 2d6 skeletons escaped from the Cliffside Cemetery 6 A flying, double-bladed axe terrorizing passersby (the illusion-wrapped stirge from Danthelon’s Dancing Axe) 7 1 cockatrice

, Danthelon’s “dancing axe” is actually a tame stirge wrapped in the illusion of a double-bladed axe, which Danthelon sets loose each night. The illusion is courtesy of Yssra Brackrel, a neutral female half-elf

Outer City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

street 5 2d6 skeletons escaped from the Cliffside Cemetery 6 A flying, double-bladed axe terrorizing passersby (the illusion-wrapped stirge from Danthelon’s Dancing Axe) 7 1 cockatrice that escaped

daring adventure undertaken on her behalf. In truth, Danthelon’s “dancing axe” is actually a tame stirge wrapped in the illusion of a double-bladed axe, which Danthelon sets loose each night. The

Encounter Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

. This can be accomplished by cutting both creatures free of the mycelium or by destroying the mycelium that holds them. Either accomplishment spells their doom. A character with a knife or other small

. Searching the room uncovers a recipe book wrapped in oilcloth under a pile of refuse. A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check reveals that the handwriting closely resembles the older

Getting Around

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

is, of course, the fastest way to get around in Sharn, cutting travel time down to one-sixth of the walking pace (5 minutes per ward). It’s also more expensive, at 2 sp per ward. The most common form

the 60 Families If you’ve read more than two issues of the Sharn Inquisitive, you’ve seen at least two stories about the ir’Tain family. King Boranel might rule Breland, and the Lord Mayor might be

City Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

. Two bouncers (Neutral Tough Bosses) stand at the door, politely enforcing the rule. The inn’s married human proprietors, Olaf Al-Azul (Chaotic Good Warrior Veteran) and Sivan Al-Azul (Chaotic Neutral

. Sivan is quiet and introspective, but he always keeps a hilarious joke or cutting remark at the ready. Character Backgrounds. Adventurers with the Artisan or Entertainer background might do business

Guildhouse Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

metal pail and yells for the stablemaster (see area G16), who takes 1 minute to arrive. G3: Staircase Halfway up this flight of stairs is a sleeping figure wrapped in a wool blanket. A door is situated

sack of flour, a tin filled with cooking utensils, a block of salt, and a knife with a cutting board. The kitchen contains nothing of great value. G12: Parlor This room contains a fireplace, a tattered

N2. Blue Water Inn

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

steak wrapped in a handkerchief. He claims the food is for his portly friend, “the destitute toymaker” (area N7) and his pet monkey. In fact, the apples are for his horse Drusilla (area N2f), and the

’ Loft Dim light spilling in through a pair of dirt-encrusted windows reveals piles of hay with pitchforks sticking out of them. Ravens rule this roost—you can see hundreds of them. Characters who search

Locations on the Entrance Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6

(Perception) check to find the wire. Once the wire is found, it can be avoided, but cutting it sets off the ballista. The ballista fires an array of bolts down the length of the hall, so each creature in

each). The javelin leaning against the wall is actually a javelin of lightning. One of the six cloaks on the bench is a hell hound cloak (see appendix A). Wrapped inside this cursed cloak is a sword of

Locations I - L

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

to attack and set fire to these lodges, but the orcs keep cutting down trees and rebuilding them. Icewind Dale Icewind Dale has snow, ice, and freezing temperatures in abundance. The sun never rises

ground, each of its fingers a tower with many peering windows. Five High Captains rule the city. Each one is a glorified pirate lord who controls a fleet of longships. The five fleets serve many

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